Global Innovation Policy Center

March 15, 2017

Germany


Primary Sources

  • Act Against Unfair Competition (as amended up to Law of October 1, 2013) (2013)
  • Act of 1996 Amending the Trade Mark Law (1996)
  • Act of January 9, 1907, on Copyright in Artistic Works and Photography (as amended up to Act of February 16, 2001) (2001)
  • Act of May 22, 1910, concerning the Execution of the Revised Bern Convention of November 1908 for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1910)
  • Act on Comparative Advertising and to Amend Provisions of Competition Law (2000)
  • Act on Copyright and Related Rights (Copyright Act, as amended up to Act of April 4, 2016) (2016)
  • Act on Employees’ Inventions (as amended by Act of July 31, 2009, on Simplification and Modernization of Patent Act) (2009)
  • Act on Measures for the Promotion of German Film (Film Promotion Act – FFG) (as amended up to Law of August 7, 2013) (2013)
  • Act on Modernization of the Industrial Design Act and Amendments to the Rules on the Notices Concerning the Protection of Exhibition (2013)
  • Act on Publishing Rights (as amended March 22, 2002) (2002)
  • Act on Simplification and Modernization of Patent Act (2009)
  • Act on Telecommunications (Act of June 22, 2004, amended up to the Act of August 7, 2013) (2013)
  • Act on Telemedia (Act of February 26, 2007, as amended by the Law of May 31, 2010) (2010)
  • Act on the Administration of Copyright and Related rights (amended up to the Act of October 1, 2013) (2014)
  • Act on the European Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention of November 27, 1963, the Patent Cooperation Treaty of June 19, 1970, and the European Patent Convention of October 5, 1973 (Act on International Patent Treaties of June 21, 1976, as amended up to Act of August 31, 2015) (2016)
  • Act on the Extension of Industrial Property Rights (Extension Act, as amended up to Act of March 12, 2004) (2016)
  • Act on the Legal Protection of Designs (as amended up to Act of October 19, 2013) (2014)
  • Act on the Protection of Trademarks and other Signs (as amended up to Act of October 19, 2013) (2013)
  • Act on the Regulation of Copyright in the Information Society (2003)
  • Act Revising Certain Provisions of Patent Act and Other Acts in the Field of Industrial Property Protection (2013)
  • Act to Strengthen the Contractual Position of Authors and Performing Artists (2002)
  • Administrative Procedure Act (as amended up to Act of July 25, 2013) (2013)
  • Civil Code (as amended up to the Act of October 1, 2013) (2013)
  • Code of Civil Procedure (as amended up to the Act of October 10, 2013) (2013)
  • Code of Criminal Procedure (2013)
  • Constitutional Law and Copyright Law (2011)
  • Courts Constitution Act (Act of September 12, 1950, as amended up to the Act of October 10, 2013) (2013)
  • Criminal Code (2013)
  • Deutscher Bundestag, Drucksache 16/5602, Den Wettbewerb stärken, den Einsatz offener Dokumentenstandards und offener Dokumentenaustauschformate fördern (Strengthen competition, promote the use of open document standards and open document exchange formats), 13.6.2007.
  • Federal Act Establishing the General Conditions for Information and Communication Services (Information and Communication Services Act) (1997)
  • Federal Act Governing Access to Information held by the Federal Government (Freedom of Information Act, as amended by Act of August 7, 2013) (2013)
  • Federal Data Protection Act (as amended up to Act of August 14, 2009) (2009)
  • Fifth Order Amending the Order Concerning Patent Applications (2002)
  • Fourth Law Amending the Copyright Act (1998)
  • Law on Minor Offences (as amended up to the Law of October 10, 2013) (2013)
  • Notice Concerning Section 8 of the Law on the Protection of Trade Marks and other Signs (published in accordance with the announcement of 13 May 1996, Federal Law Gazette, Part I, p. 747) (1996)
  • Notice Concerning Section 8 of the Law on the Protection of Trade Marks and Other Signs (published in accordance with the announcement of 23 September 1997, Federal Law Gazette, Part I, p. 2462) (1998)
  • Notice Concerning Section 8 of the Law on the Protection of Trade Marks and other Signs (published in accordance with the announcement of April 14, 1999, Federal Law Gazette, Part I, p. 767) (1999)
  • Notice Concerning Section 8 of the Law on the Protection of Trade Marks and other Signs (published in accordance with the announcement of August 27, 1996, Federal Law Gazette, Part I, p. 1358) (1997)
  • Notice Concerning Section 8 of the Law on the Protection of Trade Marks and Other Signs (published in accordance with the announcement of March 10, 1997, Federal Law Gazette, Part I, p. 551) (1997)
  • Notice Concerning Section 8 of the Law on the Protection of Trade Marks and other Signs (published in accordance with the announcement of May 20, 1998, Federal Law Gazette, Part I, p. 1216) (1998)
  • Notice Concerning Section 8 of the Law on the Protection of Trade Marks and Other Signs (published in accordance with the announcement of May 21, 1999, Federal Law Gazette Part I, p. 1095) (1999)
  • Notice Concerning Section 8 of the Law on the Protection of Trademarks and other Signs (published in accordance with the announcement of July 10, 1998, Federal Law Gazette Part I, p. 1870) (1998)
  • Notice Concerning Section 8 of the Law on the Protection of Trademarks and other Signs (published in accordance with the announcement of November 27, 1998, Federal Law Gazette, Part I, p. 3538) (1999)
  • Notice of Patent Information Centers Authorized to Accept Patent and Utility Model Applications (published on April 6, 1999 by the Federal Ministry of Justice in the Federal Law Gazette, Part I, p. 648) (1999)
  • Notice of Patent Information Centers Authorized to Accept Patent and Utility Model Applications (published on November 5, 1999 by the Federal Ministry of Justice in the Federal Law Gazette, Part I, p. 2193) (1999)
  • Notice of Patent Information Centers Authorized to Accept Patent and Utility Model Applications (published on of February 22, 2001 by the Federal Ministry of Justice in the Federal Law Gazette, Part I, p. 341) (2001)
  • Notice of Patent Information Centers Authorized to Accept Patent and Utility Model Applications (published on September 27, 2000 by the Federal Ministry of Justice in the Federal Law Gazette, Part I, p. 1416) (2001)
  • Order Concerning Patent Applications (1997)
  • Order on the Administrative Costs of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (1995)
  • Ordinance on Patent Procedures before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (Patent Ordinance of September 1, 2003, as amended up to Ordinance of December 10, 2012) (2013)
  • Ordinance on the German Patent and Trademark Office (as amended up to Ordinance of April 4, 2016) (2016)
  • Patent Act (as amended up to Act of December 3, 2015) (2015)
  • Regulation Amending the Trademark Regulation and other Regulations (2008)
  • Regulation Concerning Patent Applications (1994)
  • Regulation Concerning the Implementation of the Trademark Law (as amended up to Ordinance of January 2, 2014) (2014)
  • Regulation Concerning the Mediation Body for Copyright Disputes (1994)
  • Regulation of January 2, 2014 for Further Modernization of the Design Act and Introduction of the Invalidity Procedure in Design Matters (2014)
  • Regulation on the Implementation of the Industrial Design Law (as amended up to Order of January 2, 2014) (2014)
  • Second Act to Amend the Patent Act and other Acts (2000)
  • The German Judiciary Act (Act of September 8, 1961, amended up to the Act of December 6, 2011) (2011)
  • Third Act to Amend the Judicial Officers Act and Other Acts (1998)
  • Third Order Amending the Trademark Regulations (1998)

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